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must try

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: October 22, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Not being a fan of violent video games per sea, I tried my friends version of this first, and immediately got hooked! It's a perfect combination of story, action, and skill development. There's more than one way/order to complete the game, and each level is sufficiently difficult to be hard, but not too hard. And it's so addicting, it fun to just drive around and do stupid things and not even bother with 'missions'.

I recommend getting GTA 3 first, as this might be a little difficult to jump into if you haven't played the first one. Also, the added features of this game, make it different enough from the first one, that it's worth getting both!

Rockstar does it again

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: December 11, 2002
Author: Amazon User

When it comes to game sequels, the majority almost always leave you with the feeling that it just doesn't quite have the same magic as the first game. Well, Rockstar has jumped yet another hurdle by creating a great sequel (though not a sequel in the truest sense) which is just as fun as GTA3. That sequel being GTA: Vice City, or considering the background of the game GTA: Miami Vice.

Rockstar introduces their new character, Tommy Vercetti, and his new playground, Vice City of the 1980's. Fortunately, this newest installment in the GTA series has kept the humor aspect of the game intact and has actually upped the ante by allowing Tommy to taunt the cops and make snide little remarks as he's carjacking some innocent civilian. The milder examples of this verbal interaction include: "Don't piss me off!" as the cops are raining down bullets, or, "You're not hurt, let's keep it that way!" while some poor idiot's being tossed from the driver's seat. Other little additions in this theme include the ability to carjack somebody and speed off, with their passenger still in the car screaming their head off.

Vice City brings back some of the favorite weapons such as the sniper rifle and the rocket launcher. This time around though there are three classes of weapons, each with varying strengths. For example, a screwdriver in the melee weapons category being the weakest type, while the katana is in the middle and the chainsaw being the most powerful. To make things more interesting in implementing these tools of destruction, the ability to damage vehicles has now been added. You can smash off somebody's door with the baseball bat, shoot out their windshield with the assault rifle, and while you're at it you can pop their tires with a well-placed bullet. Other nice additions include the ability to leap from moving vehicles as well as the introduction of scooters, dirt bikes, hogs, and crotch rockets. I can guarantee that once you start cruising around on the crotch rockets, that's all you'll want to drive.

The new city, Vice City, is terrific! The use of colors in the game makes it feel as though your television screen has just been clad in a pastel suit from the `80's. The additions of genuine 80's music for the radio and two really funny talk stations, (VCPR, Public Radio being the best) gives a true sense of the time this is set in. While Liberty City used the cooler colors of the spectrum to give a harder edge to the overall appearance, Vice City roles out the red carpet of sunset colors to give the feeling of a warmer atmosphere. The new lighting system is especially excellent at rendering the blanket of neon light during the twilight hours.

On the down side, I feel that Rockstar could have developed the storyline a whole lot more, considering the excellent voice talents they have backing up the characters. For myself I was left asking: "Is this it?!" when I realized that I had completed all of the story missions.

My final word though is, BUY IT!, especially if you're a fan of GTA3. Apart from the story it's just as fun if not more fun than GTA3 in rampaging through an entirely new city. Besides, while rampaging you get to have Crockett chase you in his fancy sports cars.

not for the kids!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: December 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I gave this a 5 for fun, but only a 4 overall.
This game is buggy, but so was the first(err, third), but you will overlook them quickly as the save/restore is very handy.

If you already have GTA3 and loved it, this is the game for you. If not... there is always Mario...

The rating says it all

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: September 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User

What else can really be said about Vice City? Though not perfect, this game is incredibly familiar to nearly every teenager and gamer throughrought America. A great purchase!

Read this to know why this game is the best.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: October 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Grand Theft Auto Series + Rockstar Games = Greatest Game Ever, period

GTA3 is more fun

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: November 09, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Rockstar's decision of choosing Miami and the 80's is a poor one.
Areas of Vice City look a lot less distinctive than Liberty City, In Liberty City, you can immediately tell whether you're in Red-light district, Chinatown, Business district, Up-scale area, or Industrial district. In Vice City, everywhere looks similar. And cars and outfits in the 80's just do not look very appealing.

They should've chosen LA where there are Crenshaw district, Compton, Santa Monica, Hollywood, Beverly Hills, East LA, Chinatown, and Koreatown for the different feel of the city, and please, choose today instead of the 80's!

They did not do a good job in the design of the missions either.
I've completed about 20 missions and the missions have been kind of boring. In conclusion, GTA VC is just a huge disappointment for me.

Horrible Game

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 5
Date: March 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game was fun at first, but after a while it became boring. Killing the same people over and over again just isn't what it was it Grand Theft Auto 3. Although I don't play this game anymore, I'll give it a 2 because it was really fun for about a week.

Not much different then Grand Theft Auto 3!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: December 09, 2002
Author: Amazon User

First off, let me just say that I had a great time playing GTA 3. It was a game that could make you do things that you would never dream about doing in your life, making you belive you really were a person who did all sorts of underhanded and disatstourous things in Liberty City just so you could make cash and stay out of trouble with other gangs. The missions were varied and long, the locations of and around the city were very detailed, the weather effects were spectacular and it was very hard to put the game down after you'd already been playing it for two days. It was the game that shoked the world and brought forth a new gaming era for more mature players.
Unfourtunatley, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is almost identiacal to the 3'rd in the series. This could be a good and bad thing for all players, let me explain.
If someone is new to the series, they can master Vice City just like someone could with the 3'rd game. Needless to say that the city in this game is completley different, it feels more like and expansion pack rather then a fresh new game.
To back this up, in Vice City there are all of the things that you wish you could do in the 3'rd. For insance you can go into buildings, fly more planes and helicopters, drive motorcycles and scooters and have a whole new arsenal of weaponry. This sounds cool right?
Wrong.
Even though these perks are interesting to the game, they just don't make you feel like you are playing a whole new game.
Also everything is set in the 80's, from the clothes to the cars to the radio songs, which are all real songs from the 80's.
Don't worry, there are still some halarious commercials adn fun mini games to find hidden across the city.
And about the missions and graphics. For this game, Rockstar North has hired real actors that have stared in a variety of movies do the voices for your bosses in the game. This is pretty cool because the cutscenes sound so proffesional! Yet the missions in the game are not as fun to play or as varied in styles, which can really seem repetive. However, the graphics are, in a way, a let down. There are great lighting effects in the game, but the buildings, inside and out don't look as grand as in the 3'rd.
To wrap things up, Vice City sounds like a fresh and new idea with everything you've come to love and respect about videogames, and in a way it is. This game would be great for someone new to the series or for people who don't care if it's almost exactally like the 3'rd beside the various perks that make it seem like and expansion pack.
But for those of you looking for a groundbreaking new game in the Grand Theft Auto series, you won't find it here.

More of the same

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: November 02, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Vice City is basically GTA3 with 80's music and a more involving storyline thrown in. In fact, if you took away the 80's music, I think most people would agree that there really aren't enough new GAMEPLAY elements to justify an entire new game.
This should've been a GTA3 expansion pack or more accurately, "Grand Theft Auto 3.2" on sale for [...].

vatican city

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 6
Date: November 06, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Hello its me again the expert game player. I don't know why many people like this game. First it takes place in vaction city, I mean how boring is that. You are driving through churches, and schools. But it is kinda fun to steal the popemobile and run over popes and priests. The soundtrack is a little weird like you've got kumbiyah and john denver songs. Im gonna conquer vatical city now. Goodbye all.

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